If the concept of living is an extension of the word life itself, it seems natural then, to assume that in order to live, one is to take full advantage of the concept of life.

Here, I want to establish a specific, self-defined opinion under which I will labour for the rest of this blog. In biological terms, life is a condition that separates its possessors from inorganic matter. It is the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity and continual change. Comparatively, existence, in my eyes, is the lack of death. I will attempt to elaborate with an analogy of light and dark. Whilst darkness is itself the absence of light, light is independent; it does not function as a character that sources its energy from being a ‘lack of’.  Therefore, to simply not be dead is a contradiction to the activeness of living. Death is absence of life. Yet life is not the absence of death rather, requires energy to exist, just as light requires.